A Sri Lankan restaurant in Hale has been named ‘best fine dining restaurant’ at the annual Asian Restaurant Awards. Sigiriya, in Hale Village, scooped the gong at the ceremony at the Hilton in Manchester this week.
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Two Salford men have been jailed as part of a gang of drug dealers. The gang have been jailed for a total of 27 years after guns and drugs worth £830,000 were found in a safe and a freezer in a Darwen industrial unit.
Jay Thomas Carney, 24, from Salford, has been jailed for two years and six months for possession of a shotgun without a certificate, and 32-year-old Ryan O'Donnell, also from Salford, has been jailed for just under eight years for possession of a prohibited firearm, possession of a Class A drug, being concerned in the supply of Class A drugs and possession with intent to supply a Class B drug. The gang as a whole was jailed for 27 years and four months.
An investigation was launched into the gang by Lancashire Police after they seized two handguns with rounds of ammunition and a silencer and a pump action shotgun with shotgun shells when they raided the unit at Kay Street, Darwen, in October 2019. A locked safe box containing £480,000 of cocaine with an 80 per cent purity and a freezer containing £353,000 of amphetamine was also discovered.
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Nobody was inside the property at the time of the raid but CCTV footage showed a Ben Snell and Damien Derbyshire entering and leaving the unit in the months prior to the warrant being executed. Mercedes Citan and Citroen Berlingo vans used to drive to and from the unit were both seized during the investigation.
Derbyshire and Snell were also linked to the drug supply conspiracy by paperwork and payments connected to the unit, as well as mobile phone evidence. O'Donnell was later arrested at an address in Corinthian Avenue, Manchester, after
A Sri Lankan restaurant in Hale has been named ‘best fine dining restaurant’ at the annual Asian Restaurant Awards. Sigiriya, in Hale Village, scooped the gong at the ceremony at the Hilton in Manchester this week.
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